 If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. |
| There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book. |
| Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. |
| I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. |
| It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. |
| You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. |
| I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. |
| I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. |
| There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives. |
| I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. |
| I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. |
| I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. |
| I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. |
| Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. |
